Suddenly I went in the room. The room I saw simple and dark. There is a white screen board in one side of room. What U think? May be U think it's a black hole. But I'm talking Harke Films, which is in mid town of Kathmandu near Pashupatinath Gaurighat.
Ya, I saw here The film La Strada By Federico Fellini, 1954. In the film Gelsomina a clownish young girl is sold for 10,000 lira by her very poor mother to Gypsy carnival strong man Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), who makes a living by drawing a crowd to a square, expanding his chest to break a chain, and then passing the hat.
She follows him on the road ("la strada") and helps him during his shows. Zampano ill treats her. She meets "The Fool", a funambulist. She feels like going with him, but he puts confusion in her mind by pointing out that perhaps Zampano is in fact in love with her.
Zampanò is physically and emotionally cruel, and viciously trains Gelsomina as his sidekick. She has a bird-like quality, delicate and strangely beautiful, as well as a prophetic ability to predict the weather, yet she is unable to avoid the brutish Zampanò's fits of rage and violence. Nonetheless, she retains an indefatigable child-like optimism. She considers herself an artist because she learns to play the snare drum and trumpet, do a bit of dancing, and play a clown.
Despite this lesson, he talks her out of leaving Zampanò. The "Fool" and Zampanò have a long-standing enmity, and when Zampanò kills the "Fool" in a rage, it breaks Gelsomina's spirit. When Zampano realizes this, he leaves her on the side of the road. Years later, when he learns of her death in a local village, he experiences remorse for the first time in his life and he breaks down crying uncontrollably on the beach.
In my opinion, the film is carried by Gelsomina (played by Fellini's wife, the wonderful Giulietta Masina). Her character is childlike and naïve, but full of life and warmth, and extremely comical.
They travel alone together on the road (la strada), while he teaches her acts and drum rolls, while picking up women along the way, unsympathetic to her feelings on the matter, until they join a circus and meet with real conflict to Zampano's manliness in the form of the Fool, another entertainer who eats spaghetti on a tightrope and plays a miniature violin.
Directed by Federico FelliniStarring: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani
Ya, I saw here The film La Strada By Federico Fellini, 1954. In the film Gelsomina a clownish young girl is sold for 10,000 lira by her very poor mother to Gypsy carnival strong man Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), who makes a living by drawing a crowd to a square, expanding his chest to break a chain, and then passing the hat.
She follows him on the road ("la strada") and helps him during his shows. Zampano ill treats her. She meets "The Fool", a funambulist. She feels like going with him, but he puts confusion in her mind by pointing out that perhaps Zampano is in fact in love with her.
Zampanò is physically and emotionally cruel, and viciously trains Gelsomina as his sidekick. She has a bird-like quality, delicate and strangely beautiful, as well as a prophetic ability to predict the weather, yet she is unable to avoid the brutish Zampanò's fits of rage and violence. Nonetheless, she retains an indefatigable child-like optimism. She considers herself an artist because she learns to play the snare drum and trumpet, do a bit of dancing, and play a clown.
Despite this lesson, he talks her out of leaving Zampanò. The "Fool" and Zampanò have a long-standing enmity, and when Zampanò kills the "Fool" in a rage, it breaks Gelsomina's spirit. When Zampano realizes this, he leaves her on the side of the road. Years later, when he learns of her death in a local village, he experiences remorse for the first time in his life and he breaks down crying uncontrollably on the beach.
In my opinion, the film is carried by Gelsomina (played by Fellini's wife, the wonderful Giulietta Masina). Her character is childlike and naïve, but full of life and warmth, and extremely comical.
They travel alone together on the road (la strada), while he teaches her acts and drum rolls, while picking up women along the way, unsympathetic to her feelings on the matter, until they join a circus and meet with real conflict to Zampano's manliness in the form of the Fool, another entertainer who eats spaghetti on a tightrope and plays a miniature violin.
Directed by Federico FelliniStarring: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani
